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TheAiLeen_L

@theaileenl.bsky.social
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Wife, mother, drummer. #LFC fan. Jason Isaacs devotee. Team Basement. In exile somewhere.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Keep your Great British lawn and your garden borders secure with the… WEEPING TOMMO™ From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thank you for leading the team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon. Yours is an amazing legacy & everyone should know your name. Goodnight and godspeed, Margaret Hamilton. 🕯️
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Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died (Gift Article)
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.
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TheAiLeen_L @theaileenl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The most impressive thing about this is that he DARED cycle on Malaysian roads with all the lunatic drivers and motorcyclists around. Tolongggggg….
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Leo @leor7.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A deep-dive loan watch piece analysing Kieran Morrison’s first six weeks of the new season, focusing on: 🛠️The value of creating your own shot 🎨A wicked, pinpoint delivery 💪Growing into your body and potential athletic concerns #LFC anfieldinsights.substack.com/p/scouting-k...
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Scouting Kieran Morrison
Full analysis of the youngster both out on loan and internationally: his athletic profile, dribbling, movement, passing, crossing, shooting, temperament, and the areas that can still develop.
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TheAiLeen_L @theaileenl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Towering Inferno. 🫣😫 Gave me lifelong fire phobia. To this day, I'm sure I'm the only scientist in the world who cannot light a bunsen burner. 😂 It also took me ages to learn how to stir fry using a gas hob. Don't know why my parents thought it was a good idea to let little me watch it. 😂
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The Towering Inferno Cast Poster
Alt: The Towering Inferno Cast Poster
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TheAiLeen_L @theaileenl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
UP THE REDS! If you’ve never watched #LFCW play, give them a try. They play wonderful, quick passing football. They play the Liverpool way. #YNWA #LFC #RedSky
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Ilkley Literature Festival @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Catch Brian at ILF tomorrow! Learn more and book - www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk/events/16-br...
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16. Brian Bilston: How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside - Ilkley Literature Festival
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Looking forward to returning to Warwick Arts Centre this Thursday, the first of two shows I’ll be doing in the West Midlands on this tour (also Kidderminster on 21st Oct). Tix still available. There may also be some tickets left, too. www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/Un8...
A pic featuring me and my cat and the news that I’ll be at Warwick Arts Centre on 1st October, 7.30 kick-off.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE IS SICKENING......
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TheAiLeen_L @theaileenl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This “super intelligence” reminds me of how Wile E. Coyote would call himself “Suuuuuper genius” before plummeting once more to the bottom of the canyon while the Roadrunner beeps cheerfully at him. 💥
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Coyote Genius
Alt: Wile E. Coyote and a business card with his name and the word “Genius” on it.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m back on the road on Wednesday. Here’s where I’m heading: 30 Sep: HARPENDEN 1 Oct: COVENTRY 2 Oct: DARWEN 3 Oct: ILKLEY LIT FESTIVAL 4 Oct: MALTON 7 Oct: CROYDON 8 Oct: DEAL (SOLD OUT) 9 Oct: NORWICH 10 Oct COLCHESTER (SOLD OUT) More info on these shows is here: brianbilston.com/events/
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Events
Here’s a page dedicated to forthcoming events where I’ll be out and about, reading poems, signing books and generally inflicting myself on an unsuspecting or unreceptive public: Autumn …
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Tosh @noracists.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
5 men in masks from the UK you say? 🤔
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Dear Diary, I'm still furious about Burnham's plan to tackle disinformation. Doesn't he know that one man's disinformation is another man's essential stream of bollocks and lies to spread hatred and division in order to fuel his rise to power?"
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Alex McGuinness @alexmcguinness.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Pep Guardiola today #lfc #manc #115
Lance Armstrong gloating about 6 wins before having them stripped for cheating
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TheAiLeen_L @theaileenl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
😂😂😂 #DefinitelyGuilty
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TheAiLeen_L @theaileenl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This looks amazing. #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky #Roman
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Our Danny Who art in prison Racist be thy name Thy balaclava come Thy will be done In ports as it is on dinghies Give us this day Our daily funding & forgive us our racism as we intimidate those who speak against us & lead us all into aggravation But deliver us from being civil. 🙏
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TheAiLeen_L @theaileenl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I can see Dom and Wirtz doing this. 😂😂😂 #LFC
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TheAiLeen_L @theaileenl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
OMG WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT @lazygun.bsky.social
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TheAiLeen_L @theaileenl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Green Pool Day
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My autumn tour starts today. Sadly, it may be the last grand outing for this notebook, which has survived floods, famine, pestilence & someone trying to make off with it after a gig in Brighton. Hopefully it will make it to Monmouth today, followed by Aberystwyth, Cardigan, Winchester & Guildford.
My old notebook stuffed with poems which is now looking a bit worse for wear (like its owner)A pic advertising my list of shows for my autumn 2026 tour: Aberdeen; Aberystwyth; Bakewell; Bellaghy; Bridport; Bristol; Bude; Bury St Edmonds; Cardiff; Cardigan; Chorley; Colchester; Corsham; Coventry; Croydon; Darwen; Deal; Exeter; Glasgow; Guildford; Harpenden; Helmsley; Kidderminster; Leeds; Liverpool; London; Loughborough; Malton; Manchester; Monmouth; Newark; Norwich; Oxford; Pocklington; Sheffield; Stamford; Stirling; Stroud; Sunderland; Ulverston; Winchester; Worthing.
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TheAiLeen_L @theaileenl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Some asshole “influencer” thought it would be funny to bully a 12yo. I was going to name him but after peeking at his YouTube, it seems he does stuff like this regularly for clicks. So I won’t. Support this young lad instead.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Autumn poem just dropped.
[The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]:
 
  comm   n pr  ble    whe    writin    p   ems
in the shape of decid o   s trees
is t  at once t   ere ar   ives
the fir   t sti   rings of    he new aut   mn breeze,  
  he       oems will begi    to shake    hemselves ge   tly  
  ntil their letters loos   n like leaves,
an they d start to float down
then
 
[The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase]

turntomushuponthegroun

[The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]
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TheAiLeen_L @theaileenl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Says quite a lot about America that this guy gets hate and Trump gets to be president.
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TheAiLeen_L @theaileenl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Winner. 😂😂😂
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 22/09/2026
🌞 Wednesday 23 September is the autumn equinox, at 01:05 BST. It's when the Sun crosses the equator heading south, marking the start of astronomical autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. This video shows how the Sun’s path changes through the seasons, driven by Earth’s 23.44° tilt. ☀️🌍 🧵 1/2
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TheAiLeen_L @theaileenl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nyoni surely deserves more minutes after what he did in the Spurs game and today. #LFC
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Kristin Wilkinson 🍁 @silentkw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Watch me do a master study. Drawing a portrait by Sargent. #art #drawing
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TheAiLeen_L @theaileenl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
WOW
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James Nalton @jdnalton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Jürgen Klopp on national pride in Germany, and waving the flag for the national team, in response to and pushing back against increasing far-right nationalism.
“I don’t want to leave national pride to the wrong people. I’d like to reclaim the flag for myself and for us. I want us to wave it in a way where no one thinks, ‘What’s wrong with you?’ But rather, people get the feeling that you're happy, and understand how lucky you are to have been born in, raised in, or moved to this wonderful country. Can you be proud to be German and still be open, diverse, kind, and friendly? Can you have compassion? I'm 100% sure, yes."
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
'Cake Shop' by Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009), prolific US street photographer #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a child in a pram looking into the window of a bakery shop with cakes on display, on a busy city street
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TheAiLeen_L @theaileenl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Please take all your "patriots" with you and live happily ever after within and only within the boundaries of Piddington, thanks. 👍
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Mizgan Masani @mizgans.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
FREE: Key data & visuals from #LFC's 3-1 win over Spurs in the cup. - Shot maps and momentum plots - Passing networks of both teams (and why M. Fernandes should start every game for Spurs in CM) - Trey Nyoni numbers Please go through and share. Link: transferhub.substack.com/p/free-liver...
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TheAiLeen_L @theaileenl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
For LOCAL people! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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League Of Gentlemen Local Shop Sketch with Tubs
Alt: League Of Gentlemen Local Shop Sketch with Tubs
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We should be very British about this new independent nation by invading it and claiming it for the Crown. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby.
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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TheAiLeen_L @theaileenl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Our young lads gave us a lot of running and energy tonight. Nyoni looks more than ready. #LFC
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A week tomorrow, I’ll be heading to Wales and reading poems in Monmouth. Shows in Aberystwyth and Cardigan follow shortly after, and then I have a jaunt to Cardiff in November. Hope to see some of you there. Diolch.
A poster for my forthcoming tour containing my Welsh dates:

23 Sep: Monmouth
24 Sep: Aberystwyth 
25 Sep: Cardigan
1 Dec: Cardiff

It also features pictures of a gravestone, an aspidistra, a kettle, a wheelie bin, an eyeball and a rat on a Raleigh Chopper.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Here’s a poem about one of my cat’s poems. It’s called “On ‘,,,;;pppppp’[[[[[[[[[[[[;’;////////////////////////3,’”.
On ‘,,,;;pppppp’[[[[[[[[[[[[;’;////////////////////////3,’
 
Upon returning to my desk,
having left it temporarily in search of biscuits,
I discovered my cat had written
another poem on my laptop.
 
It was called ‘,,,;;pppppp’[[[[[[[[[[[[;’;////////////////////////3,’
and while it constituted one of her more difficult pieces,
it was also the kind of poem
which rewarded repeat reading.
 
I was struck by its experimental structure,
the absence of line breaks;
indeed, not one single space
between any of the poem’s 10,000 or so characters.
One of the work’s central motifs –
‘jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk’ –
was, by turns, reassuring and unsettling,
while the symbolism of ‘###################’,
 
hinted at our 21st century preoccupation with social media.
And yes, there were perhaps a few elements
which did not work: twelve whole pages
containing just the number 7 seemed a little excessive,
 
while her introduction of the character T
was not altogether convincing. But who could not be moved
by that devastating final line, its message of hope
piercing our hearts like an arrow: 333333333333333,,,


Brian Bilston
 
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Anyone know why a newspaper owned by the Fourth Lord Rothermere, who inherited a fortune from the Third Lord Rothermere, who inherited his money from the Second Lord Rothermere, who inherited it from the First Lord Rothermere, is so strongly opposed to inheritance tax?
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The people of Ireland give our #ConMan-In-Chief the welcome he so richly deserves! 🇮🇪 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 ☘️
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TheAiLeen_L @theaileenl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
What superior genes these lads possess. The future of the white race is bright!
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LFC Boston @lfcboston.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Feeling good about the state of the Reds! Liverpool look to build on their recent success when they host Fulham at Anfield on Saturday. Kickoff is 10 am, and doors at The Phoenix Landing are expected to open at 9 am. Gather with friends and family - make memories together. Up the Reds! #YNWA #LFC
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A man in a face covering talks to another man who is looking disappointedly at a small box he is holding. Man 1 “What's that?”. Man 2 “Baklava. I misread the WhatsApp”
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AJynwa🧣👊🏼🔴 @ajynwa97.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New era approaching …. #lfc
Turkish airlines announcement
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 08/09/2026
Easy to follow guide from the British press
An elderly lady being carried away by the police, labelled intimidating, and two black clad, balaclava wearing men standing in front of someone’s car, staring at them.
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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Turns out that if you are an old lady with a banner supporting Palestine, the government arrests you on charges of terrorism. If you are a masked white male thug bringing a national port to a standstill, the government does absolutely nothing, and the media covers it like some lads on a day out.
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TheAiLeen_L @theaileenl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
All of us in Scotland: What’s wrong with a kilt? Some hilarious choices there though. 😂😂😂
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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